Mark Peifer (He, him)

Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

Our recent work on #Cellularization of the #ichthyosporean S. arctica is finally out in its final form @lsajournal.org www.life-science-alliance.org/content/10/1... Congrats to @margaridaaraujo.bsky.social @hiralshah.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social & the rest of the team

Voters shape the future--Find the early voting site near you, make a plan and vote! Early voting continues through Saturday in NC. During early voting you can register at the polls. www.ncsbe.gov/voting/vote-...

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

@dmmjournal.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social

I love society journals! One must be judicious as many are published by Elsevier, Wiley, Springer and the like so, while you are supporting the society indirectly, you may not be permitted to upload the author accepted manuscript without paying open access

Just your friendly community reminder/ public announcement that @biologists.bsky.social is a not-for-profit publisher that supports biologists and inspires biology. @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social & more Together we can do so much more! 💪

Another good day for early voting in Orange County (NC). We're at 87% of the early voting total for 2022, with five more days to go.

Day 8 of #TalesFromTheLab ☠️ | Black mamba. Two toxins sequenced, lethal in fractions of a microgram per gram of body weight. JBC, 1972. ow.ly/baCq5101bMI #JBiolChem #ASBMBJournals

Trump's closing midterms message? Gas and ass. Good luck, America.

Breaking News: A federal appeals court declined a Trump administration request to order California to set aside about 20,000 ballots.

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking.

Sorry, correction: Not sure why this isn't a bigger story, but I read this entire report today. It's absolutely gutting. Multiple accusations that Trump and Epstein worked together to rape and assault young women, most of them very, very credible. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

When Trump calls women "piggy" or tells them to "shut up" when they ask him about sexual assault, this is why. We don't need eleventh level chess. The man is defensive because his history is long and sordid and unmistakeable.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

How was this not 3-0?

🚨 New preprint 🚨 We’ve discovered millions of viruses from sequencing data but we don’t always know who they infect. Our new tool, VHAMSTeR generates broad virus host predictions across the tree of life (prokaryote, plant, animal, fungi and protist hosts) A thread 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...

Handmade postcard for a cell migration enthusiast. #cellart #scienceart

Dropped ballot in ballot box, we are good. :)

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/a...

Trump says if Republicans lose the election it is voters’ fault

Inspirational piece on @drdemetre.bsky.social, who uprooted his life in NYC to join CDC, which he once saw as "the pinnacle of a public health career." Then he watched as the anti-vaxx activist RFK Jr" took charge of health agencies & undercut his life’s work" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

God, imagine being an impressionable 19 year old kid and seeing that your own professor said this about something you’ve been hoping to study. WTF, get a grip.

“If AI continues to improve at present rate, then in a few years, there’ll be nothing human mathematicians can do that AI can’t do better” can professors please stop spreading doom. It affects undergrads & isn’t the whole point to keep future generations inspired & enthusiastic so fields dont die??

My calendar (and recent letter of rec writing spree) reminds me it is that time of year to wish for violent death to happen to programs that require those stupid fucking rankings. Those programs that have eliminated them are doing the lords work.

Don’t back down Florida! Angie Nixon is the BEST choice! #Pinks ✨💖 Change can’t Wait. @angieforfl.bsky.social

Jasmonates promote myrosin idioblast cell development via MYC2-mediated activation of the FAMA-bHLH090 pathway in Arabidopsis (Lijuan Zhou , Zijing Zhang , Siyuan Liu , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

A Manhattan judge on Monday ruled that Maurene Comey, a former federal prosecutor and the daughter of one of Mr. Trump’s most well-known critics, was unlawfully fired last year. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/n...?

Are you really suggesting that reviewers should not read articles under consideration? Are authors happy with that?

JFC--they are telling us to turn over one of our most important tasks as researchers to AI. This is appalling. I also imagine someone is making money here......

Yesterday, Brazil and Serbia secured major wins for democracy. In 8 days, it’s our turn. #NoKings ❌👑

To build complex tissues, cells need to produce energy to grow, generate forces and modulate mechanical properties. The role of metabolism and tissue mechanics in development is experiencing a renewed interest. Yet, we know very little about how these systems interact to drive morphogenesis...

In this Cell Science at a Glance article & poster, @ericchevet.bsky.social, @elodie-lafont.bsky.social & team look at how the ER adapts to stress through mechanisms ranging from activation of signalling cascades to physical association with other organelles. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

Day 10, comparing only counties with Sunday voting in 2022 and 2026. Dems up 51% in these counties, about 12,000 extra votes. Pubs up just 8%, about 1,300 extra votes. 😵

🚨Preprint from our lab🚨 How and when did TADs emerge during evolution? 🐁🐟🪰 HINT: the diversification of CTCF regulation and functions enabled new mechanisms of 3D chromatin folding 🧬 With Liene Astica & @rdacemel.bsky.social Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Bluetorial 1/15👇

Paper now out in Nat Comm by the Gatsogiannis group (wit us): Fantastic cryoEM structure of #VCP/p97-Ufd1-Npl4 with FAF1 showing how the accessory adapter coordinates Ufd1-UT3 to feed #ubiquitin into p97. Plus incredibly detailed dynamics of the complex. Thx for a great collaboration.

If Brazil can do it so can we. Democracy is not inevitable, we have to put in the work to make it happen.

Females shape hunting of vertebrates in wild bonobos: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

#MondayMotivation Ridley Creek, PA An extremely busy week has begun 😱 But hopefully, my weekend fly fishing and hiking activities have recharged me enough to stay positive 😉 #FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #Creek #Hiking #Walking #autumn #Photography

In a thrilling weekend of volleyball at Carmichael Arena, No. 23 UNC beat Cal in four sets Friday and then upset No. 15 Stanford in five sets late Sunday night. Read our game recaps here: